Charles Bernstein
Charles Bernstein
Charles Bernstein

Charles Bernstein is the author of All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2010), Girly Man (University of Chicago Press, 2007) and Shadowtime (Green Integer, 2005). He is Regan Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. His program, Close Listening, is produced in cooperation with PennSound, and engages poets and artists in conversations, readings and more.

Shows and Series by Charles Bernstein
Hosted by Charles Bernstein
Originally aired Monday, November 14th, 2011

Joel Kuszai talks about his 2011 book Accidency, and its sampling of the author's earlier poems as well as Elizabethan poetry. Kuszai also discusses the relation of poetry to anarchist education theories.


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Hosted by Charles Bernstein
Originally aired Monday, October 24th, 2011

Poet Joel Kuszai reads selections from his 2011 book, Accidency, published by Roof Books. Kuszai is also the editor of Poetics@, a collection of email exchanges from the Buffalo Poetics List. He teaches at Queensborough Community College.


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Hosted by Charles Bernstein
Originally aired Monday, October 3rd, 2011

Ted Greenwald talks to host Charles Bernstein about being a young poet from Queens in the 1960s, how the mind takes orders from the brain, the relation of the art world to the poetry world, and about revisions, form, style, and vernacular practice.


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Hosted by Charles Bernstein
Originally aired Monday, August 1st, 2011

Jerome McGann talks about the continuing importance of Blake and the Pre-Raphaelites, about poetry as a form of knowledge, about the disease of Romantic Ideology and about the textual condition in new and old media.


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Hosted by Charles Bernstein
Originally aired Monday, July 18th, 2011

Jerome McGann reads from Are the Humanities Inconsequent? Interpreting Marx's Riddle of the Dog. McGann subjects current literary studies to a patacritical investigation (and it is Groucho, not Karl, and it's a pretty juicy riddle).


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Hosted by Charles Bernstein
Originally aired Monday, July 11th, 2011

Johanna Drucker in conversation with Charles Bernstein. The program starts with Bernstein's provocative question, "are you a poet, an artist, a fiction writer, a scholar, a designer or an aesthetician — or aren't you the kind that tells?"


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Hosted by Charles Bernstein
Originally aired Monday, May 16th, 2011

The printer, book artist, poet, and scholar (and founder of the online treasure Artists' Books Online) reads a diverse sampling of her writings spanning more than thirty years from 1971's Fragile to 2008's Combo Meals.


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Hosted by Charles Bernstein
Originally aired Tuesday, April 26th, 2011

A conversation with Joan Retallack, author of eight books of poetry including Memnoir, How To Do Things With Words, and Afterrimages. She is also the author of MUSICAGE, a volume of conversations she had with John Cage over a three-year period.


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Hosted by Charles Bernstein
Originally aired Monday, April 11th, 2011

Joan Retallack reads her poems from "The Woman in the Chinese Room" and (attention John Cage followers) she wrote a book after her conversations with the composer. Charles Bernstein hosts.


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Hosted by Charles Bernstein
Originally aired Monday, February 28th, 2011

Nathaniel Mackey sits down with host Charles Bernstein to discuss how ideas such as discrepancy, discontent, rhythmic disruption, and disjuncture play a part in shaping his poetry.


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Hosted by Charles Bernstein
Originally aired Monday, February 14th, 2011

Nathaniel Mackey reads poems from from his forthcoming collection, Nod House and some newer works. Mackey is the author of Splay Anthem<, for which he won a National Book Award.


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